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Visitors This Week!

The

Jag News Weekly Words for All 5.28.18 to 6.1.18

Our Mission

Gratitude List

1. Ms. McCabe and Ms. Mullen and ALL CHAPERONES for

our 8th grade trip to NYC – Thank you for your organization of the trip and for keeping all our kids SAFE!

2. Ms. Sophia– Thank you for organizing an excellent trip to The

Rock School of Ballet! The kids and staff had a wonderful time!

3. Ms. Sophia and Frank– Thank you so much for organizing a

successful and meaningful second annual One Day of Wonder event at OEC. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

4. Ms. Hoffert– Thank you so much for executing an amazing

talent show during our One Day of Wonder1

5. Mr. O - Thank you for supplying speakers and taking pix during

our One Day of Wonder events.

6. Sydney and Taylor from Harriton HS and all OEC staff/families who attended our Chipotle Fundraiser Monday

evening - $680 was raised so because we take 50%, OEC will

receive $340 from the fundraiser!

7. Home and School Parents – Thank you for meeting this week to

plan an excellent Spring Fling this Friday. Special shout out to all our departing home and school parents of 8th graders. We sincerely appreciate your support and service!

8. Paraprofessionals – Thank you for your input and feedback

during our monthly meetings.

9. Ms. Hoffert and Ms. Yang – Thank you for taking our

students to perform at our local senior center. Excellent job!

Our mission is to prepare students to become positive, productive citizens who can live

independently and with purpose to serve others.

We focus on accountability through

owning our actions, resiliency by putting forth

our best effort, and kindness by ensuring we

care for all while honoring diversity.

Friday – PARENTS and 21 ACCENTURE volunteers will be here to help us celebrate SPRING FLING!

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SPRING 2018 THE JAG NEWS

Reminder to Parents:

1. Thank you for ALL YOU DO for OEC! We appreciate your partnership.

2. Our school wide skating trip is scheduled for this THURSDAY. If you have not already done so, kindly send in the $16 by tomorrow (Tuesday, May 29th).

3. Spring Fling is this Friday – June 1st. Each class was provided with a flyer from home and school parents for supplies needed. Kindly see if you are able to provide any donations for this day filled with fun and joy for the kids!

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Huge congratulations and shout out to our SCRABBLE TEAM, run by Ms. Honor and Ms. Spencer, for

bringing home 1st PLACE in THE ENTIRE CITY! Special shout out to Dejanae and Karston for bringing home the prize for BEST TEAM. Excellent job to all. You make OEC super proud! Thank you for your hard

work!

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Second Annual One Day of Wonder Event at OEC! On this day we celebrated Stevie Wonder’s birthday by honoring his music and talent, we spread love and followed through on our mission to care for all and honor diversity. Check out the pictures, generously taken by Mr. O, below! Students learned braille, played goal

ball, and enjoyed basketball – just a few of the events offered for the day! Huge thank you to all of our event leads including Mr. Woodman, Mrs. Johnston, Ms. Clark, Mark Johnson,

and many more!

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It was a great week at OEC! 8th graders enjoyed NYC on their final trip. Mr. Sawyer completed his FINAL home and school parent meeting as his grandbaby Kyndall goes off to Central HS next year, our first ever school wide science fair was a success, and K-1 students enjoyed a little sunshine outside below. Have a great week ahead!

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Reflecting on Teaching and Communicating with

Families

The Classroom Environment

Instruction

Planning and Preparation

Best Practices

Great job to Ms. Aly Cohen for pushing her students to respond in complete sentences and for coming back to students who incorrectly answered the question the first time so that they had to self correct with prompting.

Huge thank you to Ms. Sophia for arranging a trip for our students to attend the ROCK SCHOOL OF DANCE. Ms. Johnston’s class poses above with a dancer from the school. Remember that our goal was to attend one field trip per cycle with parent engagement. Let’s reflect and see how we did this year!

Mr. Pritchard did an excellent job of preparing students to explain exactly what it is they were learning and for having 100% of students engaged in the task at hand. Keep up the great work Mr. Pritchard!

May 31st – summer work is due. Kindly email your supply lists and summer work to Ms. Foote so that she can share with Mr. O to post on our school’s website. Thank you to all staff who have already submitted these!

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THIS LAST WEEK IN MAY!

Day and Date What’s Going On?

Monday 28th

No School Memorial Day!

May we remember all those who sacrificed their lives to serve and protect our country.

Tuesday 29th

This is the final day to collect money for our skating trip on Thursday.

*Any student who is not attending the trip – names must be sent to Ms. Foote (work MUST be provided for them on

Thursday as several staff will stay back to help supervise).

Wednesday 30th

Mullen/Foote – Weekly math meeting to examine EOY goal. Wells Fargo Program for 7th/8th graders

Breakthrough will be in at 8:45am to meet with middle school classes.

At the end of the day – summer staff will be announced for reading program held at OEC.

1pm-4pm at 440 Climate Expo (Ms. Weiss-Cohen and Foote to attend)

Thursday 31st

School Wide Skating Trip Foote will be out doing a walkthrough at Conwell Elementary with

Autonomy Principals (back at 12pm)

Friday June 1st

GRADES DUE. FINAL DEADLINE. SPRING FLING RUN BY HOME AND

SCHOOL PARENTS 9AM-2PM *10:15am Picasso Project Meeting with Cindy Farlino, Leon, Honor, Hoffert, Aly Cohen and

Foote for 30 minutes.

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OEC’s VISION Need to reach me? Principal Meredith

Foote

Cell: 610-731-6039

Email:

[email protected]

Follow us on instagram: @oecjags

Any

suggestions for improvement or growth are

ALWAYS welcome.

Texts/emails work best!

The vision for OEC is to be a model school for the School District of Philadelphia by 2020 as

rated by the school progress report (SPR) in order to exemplify best practices of using the least

restrictive environment specifically for students with special needs. Our ultimate goal is to be

ranked #1 among all K-8 schools in the city. We will continue to improve through

*effective leadership

*collaborative teachers *involved families

*a supportive environment *ambitious instruction

Teamwork will enable us to achieve our vision.

Safety News: Our 9th fire drill this year was our fastest exit at 1:57 out of the

building – keep it up!

Share below to help us create our dream playground! https://fundamentals.thefundsdp.org/school/4480#

Above, 1st graders prepare for second grade in Ms. Leon’s class by reflecting on the year and looking ahead!

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Let’s Look Ahead…

June 1 – Spring Fling run by Home and School Parents + Accenture Volunteers June 4 – Fire Drill #10 June 5 – Spring Concert June 6th – Kindergarten Move Up Day June 8th – 8th Grade Graduation @9:30am June 12th – Last Day for Students and June 13th – Last Day for Staff

MUSICAL MOMENT OF THE WEEK! This week, Ms. Hoffert hosted our talent show to close out our second annual One Day of Wonder and students lit the stage on FIRE! Below, we have Tasheen bringing down the house with his dance performance, Sean serenading us with his piano skills, and the third grade dance team doing an original performance. Great job to everyone for being brave enough to get up on stage and having confidence to showcase your talents and thank you to our audience for being both respectful and encouraging.

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STAFF FAMILY MOMENTS

Two major graduations happened in the families of OEC staff members! Congratulations to Ms. Palmer’s son Max for graduating from pre-school. Above, he and his older brother Jack pose together. Congratulations to Ms. Sell’s sister for graduating from St. Joe’s summa cum laude with a degree in actuarial science. Keep the graduations coming! Congratulations to all OEC families!

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Moment of the Week!

Devontrius closes out our Second Annual One Day of Wonder Talent Show by leading the whole school in a dance and song routine. Special thanks to Mr. O for all of our pictures and great job to Devontrius and all of our student performers. Huge thank you to Ms. Hoffert for making the talent show a tremendous display of all OEC student talents. Keep up the great work and GO DEVONTRIUS!

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